Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been subject considerable research in analysis inequality. Such linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, inheritance innate abilities social network family parents by children; second, capital market imperfections which present barriers human investment. Consequently, using corre...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of young adolescents' reports of parental SES by comparing adolescent reports with parents' own reports of SES. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In 1990, 924 13 year olds, along with 648 of their father...

Engagement in two interlinked areas of occupation, familial social participation and caring for my father at the end of his life, led to a journey of self-discovery. A qualitative research methodology, autoethnography, is used to develop a narrative that examines engagement in these two occupations before, during, and after my father's illness and death. I discuss meanings and purposes of famil...

Occupation of father at time of birth was ascertained for a series of 386 children who died of malignant disease before age 5 during the years 1965-70 in the province of Quebec and a control group of 772 children whose birth registration immediately preceded and followed that of each case in the official files. The comparison of cases with controls showed a significant excess of fathers in hydr...

The objective of the study described here was to test the hypothesis that paternal occupational exposure near conception increases the risk of cancer in the offspring. We conducted a cohort study based on a population of 235,635 children born shortly after two different censuses in Sweden. The children were followed from birth to 14 years, and cases of cancer were identified in the Swedish Canc...

BACKGROUND Socio-economic differences in the prevalence of overweight/obesity may be one factor through which health inequalities arise and may vary by the population studied. METHODS Analysing a cohort of 13 889 children born in Belarus between June 1996 and December 1997, the authors investigated associations of parental educational attainment and highest household occupation with: (i) meas...

We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility working time arrangements 25 European countries. find that overall Europe, there is no statistically significant difference access flexible work arrangements. However, women are less likely than men have hours Central-Eastern Southern countries, whereas this gap reversed Continen...

BACKGROUND In the most recent revision (2003) of the U.S. standard certificate of live births, the National Center for Health Statistics recommended that all states collect maternal and paternal usual occupation. Because such information might be useful in the surveillance of job-related risk areas, we assessed the quality of parental work information on the U.S. birth certificate. METHODS Oc...

BACKGROUND Social health inequalities in adult population are partly due to socioeconomic circumstances in childhood. A better understanding of how those circumstances affect health during adulthood may improve the opportunities for reducing health disparities. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of parental socioeconomic status, which is proxied by occupation, on adult Spa...